ABC's Jon Faine spoke with his colleague Linda Mottram about his approach to reporting on this story, which is, of course, much more than a story for him and the 774 team.

"It's hard. It's what all of us in the media do, talking about these sort of cases all the time."

"It's so different when it's someone you know and work with, when you're experiencing it almost simultaneously from both sides. You try and cover it with professional distance, while at the same time you're emotionally engaged."

"We're being careful not to speculate. A lot of other media have been jumping in on this story. In the last couple of days they've been pushing particular lines of enquiry."

"In typical ABC fashion we're a bit more conservative with a capital 'C' about this sort of stuff anyway. But it's also deeply distressing when you start seeing people speculating, even at some stages making thing up, pushing various theories with little evidence and substance".

"You come to work everyday and you walk past someone's desk and they're not there....It's been very hard...But we've got to do our job, we've still got to provide programs, and we desperately hope along with Jill's family, that somehow there's a happy ending to this. And soon," Jon Faine.